Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer Kathryn Ruemmler received an 11% pay hike last year, bringing her total compensation to $25 million; U.S. Bank promoted Toby Clements to chief operations officer; Klarna is expanding its forward-flow and whole-loan sale deal with Elliot Investment Management to $2 billion; and more in this week's banking news roundup.

The Apollo Group, a six-person team in New York, is the latest to show that former First Republic advisors are still not completely settled at JPMorgan.

Swiss banking giant UBS Group received federal approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to convert its $1.6 trillion-asset UBS Bank USA from a Utah-chartered industrial bank to a national charter.

The government MBS guarantor ended a 15-day advance notice mandate for extensions on a filing deadline so those with a March 31 due date can still ask for one.

The federal court rejected Flagstar's attempts for both a panel rehearing and an en banc hearing to overturn California's interest on mortgage escrow rule.

A section of Trump's executive order on mortgage credit called for eliminating requirements for loan officer registration, a process industry experts say has never been considered a burden.

Unionization efforts at several Wells Fargo locations go in reverse, while the buzzy blockchain stuff overshadows the plain fact that customers want products that help them rather than gee-whiz technology.

Despite headlines threatening massive AI-driven disruption of the industry, legacy financial institutions with vast troves of customer data are actually very well positioned to reap the benefits of AI — if they understand how.

A database that holds the details about every attack on databases is itself at risk of being compromised, which would leave banks and other businesses on their own when it comes to network defense.